mag wrote on Feb 28, 2014, 22:50:There is a finite total of bitcoins possible, which means it is by its nature a deflationary currency instead of an inflationary one. That means it is a better idea to hoard the coins than it is to invest them or spend them.

This is in opposition to a producing economy that is wealthy and out of debt. A deflationary currency like Bitcoin is what we need to stop the ruling corporate and government elite who benefit from robbing us to their benefit.

Redmask wrote on Feb 28, 2014, 16:13:No, it's time to realize that a currency backed by no one isn't a good idea. Long past due on that actually.

It's backed by the marketplace, encryption and a huge Internet infrastructure. It's certainly not backed by 'no one' as you say. True that it is a volatile commodity right now and some kinks are still being worked out.

Note that this event isn't in the currency itself but in Mt Gox's insecure systems.

I'm so glad they wrote out everything on the screen in plain english that was said in the trailer. They even broke from the game video to scroll it which was a really nice touch. It even scrolled across, simulating a 300baud modem.

Were it to become law, the R&D credit will exclude companies that make violent video games.

Of course the loopholes that mega corporations swimming in billions of dollars of profits and billionaires take advantage of will remain unaffected.

It will help them. Corporations very often write these sorts of laws in ways to give them an advantage in the marketplace. For example, they write the compliance rules so they are very expensive and time consuming. Then start-ups can't, well, start up. It's the modern mercantile empire.

Arithon wrote on Feb 27, 2014, 12:10:Well, let's party like it's 2007! The textures are horrible, the AI is laughably bad and the game style is a twitch shooter with kill-replay-cam straight out of the Call of Duty:MW2 playbook. It has the depth of a teaspoon and no single player, so very little longevity.

+1. Yeah I'm not buying it till the $5 or $10 sale. Depth of a teaspoon.. Exactly!

I don't understand the guffaws.. It's easy to eliminate most bitcoin transactions by banning banks/exchanges/retailers from exchanging it.

The government can ban anything it wants, throw some self-serving rhetoric just as Manchn did here and then claim it is constitutional by saying using the blanket 'common good' which is what an authoritarian government does.

The economic crash was largely a failure of govt regulation. The bitcoin market is a rejection of that failed system! A big part of the volatility of the crypto market has been due to government regulators around the world banning or restricting access.

Beamer wrote on Feb 11, 2014, 10:52:It also convinces the regular people not paying close attention that you're probably on the wrong side of things, because you're acting irrationally and emotionally.

Sure, character assassination of opposition is a popular tactic and the ruling classes use it all the time as pointed out by Task. If there are no adverse consequences for their actions, our government is effectively totalitarian because they can get away with whatever they want. What's left? Civil disobed?

The government uses violence against us every day, threatened or actual. We aren't ever supposed to use it, even thought he constitution permits us to replace an illegal govt?